MySQL creator Michael “Monty” Widenius has finally left Sun Microsystems following a long-drawn-out disagreement over what he saw as the firm’s “premature” release of MySQL 5.1.
As we reported in September, the MySQL daddy was understood to have quit the company, less than seven months after Sun paid $1bn for the free database …

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Well the Sun is not cool

who knew :) They do make good hardware though, shame about the software, oh there is ZFS and zones, hand me a popper and a sparkler.

Corporates sap the life out of everything, repeat after me, only work for a corporate when they are willing to pay a huge amount of money for your time, it is only then that you can really enjoy working with a corporate. At all other times they are to be avoided like the proverbial plague.

History always repeats itself

The history of the IT industry is littered with cases of successful small European companies who sold out to large American ones, and then many of the best people left. If you'd held a senior position (managerial or technical) in a business you'd helped to grow from almost nothing, would you want to become a small fish in a very big pond?

Maybe there should be better ways to reward people like this, without them having to sell their shareholding to anybody they can find with a large enough wallet, and walk away from what they've achieved.

RE: Well the Sun is not cool

"....only work for a corporate when they are willing to pay a huge amount of money for your time...." Well, I bet David Axmark and Monty will be grumbling all the way to the bank and on to an offshore tax haven. Whilst it may not be good to be employed by a corp, being bought out by a corp at a rediculous price seems to be quite a happy way to go!